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Short-term sale for ‘Howie Tootalot in Yellowstone’

For a limited time, Howie Tootalot in Yellowstone will be available in ebook format for only 99cents.  This sale is scheduled to begin on Oct. 28, 2018 and will last only a few days.  Why does the water of Isa Lake drain in two different directions? Follow Howie Tootalot to the wild land we now …

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Calls for Submissions at Jack Walker Press

While our official entry period to our call for personal essays that expore  the theme transitions has ended, we have decided to extend the submission deadline to July 30 for our special friends and subscribers. You are a special friend if you have been personally invited or are a JWP reader.  We have many wonderful …

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‘Single Scull Rowing for Beginners’ from Jack Walker Press

Explore Single Scull Rowing If you love the water, you can learn a lifelong sport that provides an aerobic and whole-body muscle exercise.  Well maybe you don’t have to love the water, but it helps. Single Scull Rowing for Beginners can help you learn to row in a single scull. The ebook and paperback are …

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Tracks: A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage Departures Series, 2014, originally published by Pantheon Books (1980), 288p.   At first pass, Tracks sounds like an Australian version of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild— but with camels: Young woman traverses wild lands in a bid for …

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David Brower: The Making of the Environmental Movement, By Tom Turner, with a foreword by Bill McKibben. University of California Press, 2015. 308 pages.   David Brower was instrumental in saving many US lands from ruination, including: Echo Park in Dinosaur National Monument, a free-flowing river in the Grand Canyon, Redwood National park, North Cascades …

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